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Nick Thurston of Information as MaterialNovember 2nd, 2008

Fillip is pleased to present a talk by UK-based artist, writer, performer, and publisher Nick Thurston on Sunday, November 2, at 2 pm, at the Fillip office, 305 Cambie Street, Vancouver. Nick will be bringing a select archive of publications as a usable reading room and discuss the broader conceptual and formal concerns of some of those projects. In addition, he will introduce information as material’s editorial interests and explore the notion of “editorship through curating.” This talk will be a fairly informal event, primed for first-hand reading, as well as an open forum for Q&A.

About the Speaker

Nick Thurston is based in West Yorkshire, England. He is author of Reading the Remove of Literature (2006) and Historia Abscondita (An Index of Joy), (2007). Since 2006, he has been Co-Editor of the independent artists’ book imprint information as material. His Conceptualist reading performances form the crux of Nick’s poetic and editorial work, which also underpins his approach to pedagogy at Sheffield Hallam University.